manor house

noun

"manor-house" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“manor house” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The main house on a landed estate.

Corpus desk

Index EN-manor-house · manor house · English

manor house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for manor house
PropertyValue
Headwordmanor house
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “manor house” in English

manor houseranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

manor house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manor house, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is manor house, spelled M-A-N-O-R- -H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The main house on a landed estate.
  2. 2
    The house of the lord of the manor.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how manor house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Near-synonyms: great house, great hall
  2. Many of the houses have neat little dormer windows and tall stone chimneys, and Corfe's older buildings include the fine old manor house.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "manor house"?
"manor house" is spelled M-A-N-O-R- -H-O-U-S-E.
What does "manor house" mean?
As a noun, "manor house" means: The main house on a landed estate.
What language does "manor house" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list